CREATIVE PROCESS(English) creativeprocess). Many brilliant people have reported that their discoveries are the result of the solution “somehow” appearing in their minds and that all they have to do is write down “heard” or “seen”. Similar circumstances accompanied, for example, the birth of D. I. Mendeleev’s idea Periodic system elements and in it. chemist A. Kekule of the cyclic formula of the benzene ring. The mystery of the act of "illumination" has long been associated with the presence of an external, sometimes divine source of creative energy. inspiration.
Using Data introspection famous scientists (for example, G. Helmholtz and A. Poincaré), Amer. psychologist Graham Wallace (1926) developed a 4-stage scheme of T. p. According to this scheme, in the course of solving complex problems, people first go through
1st stage long and time-consuming analysis of the problem, accumulation and processing of information, attempts are made to consciously solve the problem. As a rule, this phase ends in vain and the person retreats, “forgetting” about the problem for days and weeks. At this time it develops
2nd
stage T. p. - maturation ( incubation).
It is characterized by the lack of visible progress in solving the problem. Then follows
3rd
stage- illumination ( insight),
followed by
4th stage- checking the correctness of the solution. see also Thinking is productive(stages).
At the stage of maturation, apparently, active work is important.
subconscious.
According to self-observation, a person, outwardly forgetting about the task, occupies his consciousness and attention with other things. Nevertheless, after some time, the “creative” task pops up on its own in consciousness, and it often turns out that if not a solution, then at least an understanding of the problem has turned out to be advanced. Thus, the impression arises of unconsciously proceeding decision processes. However
an important prerequisite productive work of the subconscious is the 1st stage - persistent conscious attempts to solve the problem.
An analysis of self-observations shows that the process of “enlightenment” is often not a one-time flash, but, as it were, is distributed over time. In the course of a persistent conscious process of decision, elements of understanding and movement in the right direction appear. Thus, the condition of the so-called. "Insight" is usually hard work. Conscious efforts, as it were, set in motion, "unwind" a powerful, but rather inertial machine of the unconscious creativity. The same facts that sometimes the decision arises during periods of rest, idleness, in the morning after sleep or during breakfast, they say, perhaps, only that these periods usually take a lot of time for a person.
In research interhemispheric organization of mental processes it has been suggested that the frontal lobes of the right and left hemispheres make different contributions to the implementation of individual phases of T. p. The phases of maturation and insight, according to this hypothesis, are associated with the work of the frontal lobe of the right hemisphere, the phase of primary accumulation of information and critical examination of creative products - with the work frontal lobe of the left (dominant) hemisphere.
Ability to be creative creativity) is not strongly correlated with intellectual ability, although outstanding creative individuals undoubtedly have a very high intelligence quotient. With t. sp. theories semantic networks, the fundamental difference between intellectual and creative activity, apparently, lies in the focus on solving different types of problems: understanding the meaning and generating a new meaning. The correlation of these activities is obvious, although there are examples of their independent existence. Creativity often manifests itself with external intellectual "retardation", but more often there is a presence of good intellectual abilities without a developed creative principle.
One of the options for interpreting the terms "understand" and "generate" m. b. associated with the next reasoning. The term "understand" implies the ability to track the course of other people's reasoning, that is, the ability of a person in the course of learning to form new connections between acquaintances concepts and the new concepts themselves. The word "form" in this context used in the sense of "form according to instructions". "A person who understands" must constantly follow the external carrier of these sv
ideas and concepts, for example. following the teacher, the book, etc. He must also have exact recipes for his step-by-step mental actions.
A “creative person”, on the contrary, has the ability to generate concepts that are not externally conditioned by anything, the ability to draw conclusions that are unexpected for most people, which do not directly follow from anywhere and are considered as some kind of “jumps” of thinking (conscious or unconscious), breaks in the usual, standard logic of reasoning. In this regard, we note that a well-structured area knowledge usually represented by a semantic network, the nodes of which are not located near each other; rather, they create whimsical with t. sp. topologies and fundamentally non-compact structures. Dr. In other words, we can assume that if some well-established system of facts and theoretical propositions eventually takes the form of a compact section of the network, then
after certain creative act, this network includes some unexpected, strange and, therefore, remote (in the original space) nodes of knowledge. In terms of understanding the mechanisms of T. p., an analogy between the structure of a semantic network and the structure of a neural ensemble is appropriate.
When comparing the acts of "generation" and "understanding" a certain paradox is revealed. Feature“a person who understands” consists in the ability to assimilate a certain system of knowledge, i.e., to form in oneself
copy connections between concepts, created earlier by the “creative person”. This work on copying a section of the semantic network is not a purely mechanical act and requires a number of complex preliminary formation operations: initial concepts, lists of attributes (properties) of these concepts, a new system of priorities among attributes, etc. Thus, the difference between understanding and creativity is, at best, the difference between the original and the copy! In fact, this is the difference between the act of creating an original, which appears to an outside observer as a miracle, and an act of conscientious, laborious, but devoid of any secret copying.
The effectiveness of T. p. in terms of the mechanisms of semantic networks is possibly associated with a combination of several factors (abilities).
1. The ability to quickly and, most importantly, constantly going through the set of options for connections between existing concepts (network nodes). It should be noted that in this model, each network node is a set or list of attributes that describe this concept, and the implementation of exhaustive enumeration requires, generally speaking, catastrophically rapidly growing costs of time and memory. In this regard, the way out of the enumeration problem is associated with the presence of abilities that determine the possibility of forming procedures for a "truncated", incomplete, selective enumeration. Several types of trace are important in this regard. abilities.
2. The ability to form an open, in the sense of a constantly generated (supplemented and changed), list of attributes of c.-l. phenomena or concepts. Obviously, the lists of attributes and their priorities should change depending on the task and subject area. This ability is important in view of the fact that the characteristics of the studied phenomena are sets of initial parameters used to enumerate combinations.
3. The ability to form a successful system of priorities among the options for links being prepared for enumeration. The mechanism of this process, in particular, can be associated with the establishment of pairs of well-matching attributes, where the pair includes one attribute from each concept included in the relationship. At the same time, priority systems should change depending on the problem being solved (subject area).
4. Ability to form new concepts (nodes). This procedure can be considered as a cyclic (iterative) process of forming a method for constructing a deductive and/or inductive reasoning based on the available facts and concepts, i.e. based on previously formed network sections and connections between them.
Within the framework of such a model, both individual differences in creativity and differences in creative success among the same people in different subject areas become clear. Indeed, suppose that on a k.-l. At the stage of reasoning, a certain person has developed a “successful” system of priorities for options for enumerating features (or other elements of reasoning). As a result, this person in this situation will show himself as a creative person. However, in the case of a
Theoretical part
What is the creative process?
The creative process is the process of transforming information into new ideas and putting the ideas found into practice.
Creativity is a skill that anyone can learn. The main hurdle to overcome is disbelief in one's own abilities. If it seems to you that you will not succeed, then this is only because you have never done this, or, having made one attempt, gave up and did not complete it.
In fact, often you just need to start and not quit what you started. The creative process itself will give you strength, energy and inspiration. The more you create, the more you want to continue what you started. Feeling a surge of creative energy, you will begin to create for days on end without feeling tired.
Another barrier to creativity fear of possible failure. Any new idea at first glance seems frightening, unattainable. However, any fear can be overcome, like any other obstacles. Most often, any of your fears and barriers are fictitious, existing only in your imagination. Therefore, even if you are not ready for something new right now, just start, take a few simple steps to the goal and you will see that barriers don't really exist.. There is only fear, which disappears as soon as you start doing something.
The creative process is accompanied:
Pleasure
Joy
By inspiration
An increase in strength and energy
Losing sense of time
This fact can explain such an interesting pattern that creative people get sick less often and live longer. And most importantly, at the same time they are much more successful at work and much happier than most of the people around them.
7 stages of the creative process
The creative process consists of 7 stages:
1. problem statement
2. collection and analysis of information
3. inspiration
4. search for a solution
5. incubation
6. insight
7. embodiment
On everything known history about Archimedes, who made a discovery in the bathroom, you can clearly show all the stages of the creative process.
So, The ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes was instructed by King Hieron II to determine whether his crown was made of pure gold, or whether the jeweler mixed some silver into it [problem statement! ]. The specific gravity of gold was known, but the difficulty was in determining the exact volume of the crown, as it was irregular in shape. Archimedes understood that density is equal to mass divided by volume. He could weigh the crown, but could not determine its volume [collection and analysis of information! ]. Then he began to think about how to calculate the required volume [inspiration! ]. After spending a few days thinkinglooking for a solution! ], he put the solution of the problem aside for a while and decided to rest by taking a bath [incubation! ]. Having plunged into the water, he was surprised to find that the volume of water displaced by his body is equal to the volume of the body and the volume of the crown can be calculated simply by immersing it in a vat of water [insight! ]! This discovery aroused such delight in him that he ran naked into the street shouting "Eureka!" (that is, “I found it!”) And ran to the palace, where, under the king, he lowered the crown into the water and determined the volume of the displaced liquid [embodiment! ]. It turned out that the jeweler still diluted the gold with silver.
creative vein
The creative vein is a combination of familiar elements and ideas in an unusual way, generating new properties of an object or new ideas. You do not have to invent something fundamentally new, it is enough to find and combine two objects or two ideas together and get the result you need. For example, by combining an angry cat and a mop, you can get a cat that chases dogs with a mop (an idea that writers, artists or cartoonists may like), and by combining a hobby and work, you can build a profitable business.
A creative vein allows you to generate thousands of new ideas a day, among which there are sure to be breakthrough ones that bring big profits.
Questions for self-examination
What is the creative process?
What are the barriers to being creative?
Why do creative people get sick less often and live longer?
What are the stages of the creative process?
What is a creative vein?
Practical part
Exercise 1. 10 magic words
We take any subject and come up with 10 most suitable definitions for it. And then vice versa - the 10 most inappropriate. And then 10 adjectives that most clearly characterize him. And then 10 adjectives that characterize anything but the chosen subject. After that, we are looking for 10 new ways to use the item.
Exercise 2
Try to connect and find new ideas from the following combinations:
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child + diet |
girl + wrench |
ship + rubber |
beaver + tank |
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dog + wheel |
beard + crab |
office + motorboat |
conversation + waste |
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education + happiness |
gold + beacon |
paddle + smoke |
light + tobacco |
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summer + caricature |
dacha + sailor |
sky + soot |
cave + book |
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freedom + caramel |
spoon + paperclip |
carriage + cotton wool |
straw + iron rod |
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river + engine |
key + match |
hero + mop |
road + spiral |
Once you get the hang of the exercise, it will be very easy for you to generate new ideas by simply combining what is in front of your eyes. This is a real creative vein that can become gold for you .
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creative process- this is a process in which the main focus of the consciousness and imagination of a person goes to the creation or improvement of something. In fact, it is any daily act of a person, to a greater or lesser degree of importance. As for me, myself big feature creative thinking there is its formation and development, and this is what I would like to focus on most of all. But about features later.
The main feature of creativity there is its uniqueness, because it is precisely because of it that we call it “creativity”, and nothing else. Uniqueness gives a new, unusual - the main thing in creativity. If we take this essay as an example, it is something, but a manifestation of creativity. But creativity itself is manifested not only in writing, but also in many other varieties, such as: music, artistic creativity, scientific (inventive) and many others.
And the truth is, how often is the question of what was the basis of the idea for the creator? What is the basis of the creative process? There is a certain mystery of the creative process in this.
All these varieties have one thing in common, the creation of creative "objects" directly depends on inner world creating. Most often, creation can be described as a “flow” of small particles that gather into a single whole and subsequently create, create, create.
There were scientists who tried to divide the creative stage into stages or stages, but as for me, such a division has only an approximate essence. Here, again, is an example of writing this essay - it honestly did not have those stages (Steps for Wallace: preparation, incubation, insight, verification). Just because there was an interest in writing, he just ousted all these 4 stages. Also, there are many other variations, but isn't this just a convention?
I think this is for those people who always need an answer.
But where does this “flow” come from?
How is such a process formed?
Of course, it's no secret to anyone that the creative process is the fruit of the unconscious, which, in turn, is a combination of both experience (which includes many sub-items), and skills, abilities, psychological states of the creator, and, of course, tastes. It may be true that there is an intellectual impulse, for example, a person who wants to create, something new and original, studies everything that has been created at the moment and searches with the help of rational thinking for what seems to be new.
But, nevertheless, in most cases, this is that “something” that is hidden somewhere inside a person and which breaks out, like a volcano from the depths, at moments of inspiration, at a sensitive peak. It is inspiration (unconscious impulse) that plays one of the main roles in shaping the creative process.
Also, the impetus for the desire to create in a person can be played by social reasons, such as the desire to gain fame, the desire to remain in memory, the desire to attract attention or ... the desire to find oneself, the desire to escape from the real world. Creativity can be an answer to questions, or it can be an endless search - isn't that a feature? Creativity can become a deep deserted refuge, but at the same time be a common cultural popular work.
Each person has a part of creativity, but, unfortunately, not everyone can discover in themselves that part of their inner world. After all, it can manifest itself not only in the cultural environment, but also in ordinary things, even in everyday life. It happens that people themselves push away their creative impulses because of uncertainty, disbelief in themselves. To build goals, dreams and, over time, to embody them, to form one's essence, to form a person in oneself - isn't this creativity?
In fact, living life is an elementary example of a creative process, how a person finds a way out of different situations, adapts to the “variable”. Probably, every day a person finds himself in a situation where his Creative skills, maybe not good enough.
A special kind of creative process is "critical thinking". Critical thinking is the ability to see things from different angles or different variations. Such a skill is most likely useful in all human activities, since it is the basis for moving forward, development.
If we take creativity as a reflection of the inner world of a person, then we will never understand it, we will always hover close, try to come up with an explanation that will border on our perception. Here in this example, one can trace the ambiguity of modern "creative thinking". The phrase “we will never understand” and what was said before it is a reflection of human creativity, further understanding of this phrase, the search for its significance or absurdity is also a creative process, respectively, the outcome - criticism or approval is the general outcome of creative thinking.
In fact, it can be said that the creative process is typical for a person in most situations. But this is not so, initially it could be added (even in the term) that a person has a so-called “edge” of thinking. Schopenhauer called this the “one-sidedness” of thinking, the essence of such thinking was aimed at perceiving the world, things only with the help of common sense (it is the very “one-sidedness”). In this case, creative thinking loses its significance and dulls in the mind of a person.
All of the above are features creative process, this process itself is initially special. Writing an essay is special, and reading it and checking it will be special.
Here the question arises, is perception a creative process? Here opinions can differ categorically, since the main idea of the creative is creation or improvement. But, with perception, which it was not, our consciousness creates a certain “image” (by image I meant a picture of the unconscious, it may be an opinion). Let the image have a positive or negative assessment, but it is created according to the individual unique flows of a person.
Types and functions of creativity
Exist different types creativity:
- production and technical
- inventive
- scientific
- political
- organizational
- artistic
- everyday household, etc.
in other words, the types of creativity correspond to the types of practical and spiritual activity.
Vitaly Tepikin, a researcher of the creative factor of man and the phenomenon of the intelligentsia, singles out artistic, scientific, technical, sports-tactical, and military-tactical creativity as independent types.
Creativity as an ability
Creativity as a process (creative thinking)
Stages of creative thinking
G. Wallace
The description of the sequence of stages (stages) of creative thinking, which was given by the Englishman Graham Wallace in 1926, is best known today. He identified four stages of creative thinking:
- Training- formulation of the problem; attempts to solve it.
- Incubation- temporary distraction from the task.
- insight- the emergence of an intuitive solution.
- Examination- testing and/or implementation of the solution.
However, this description is not original and goes back to the classic report of A. Poincaré in 1908.
A. Poincare
They were especially willing to come ... during the hours of a leisurely ascent through the wooded mountains, on a sunny day. The slightest amount of liquor seemed to scare them away.
It is curious to note that stages similar to those described by Poincare were singled out in the process of artistic creativity by B. A. Lezin at the beginning of the 20th century.
- Work fills the sphere of consciousness with content, which will then be processed by the unconscious sphere.
- Unconscious work represents a selection of the typical; “but how that work is done, of course, it cannot be judged, it is a mystery, one of the seven world mysteries.”
- Inspiration there is a "shifting" from the unconscious sphere into the consciousness of a ready-made conclusion.
Stages of the inventive process
In the most acute form, the connection between the personal and the creative is revealed by N. A. Berdyaev. He's writing:
Creativity Motivation
V. N. Druzhinin writes:
Creativity is based on the global irrational motivation of human alienation from the world; it is directed by a tendency to overcome it, it functions according to the type of "positive feedback"; a creative product only spurs the process, turning it into a pursuit of the horizon.
Thus, through creativity, a person is connected with the world. Creativity stimulates itself.
Mental health, freedom and creativity
N. A. Berdyaev adheres to the following point of view:
The creative act is always liberation and overcoming. It has an experience of power.
Thus, creativity is something in which a person can exercise his freedom, connection with the world, connection with his deepest essence.
see also
Notes
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What is creativity and what stages does it consist of, what is creativity and what abilities does it include, what are the problems and results of creativity, and what are the consequences of creative activity
The creative process uses imagination to combine existing knowledge and ideas to obtain a new, unique result.
The result obtained allows decide specific problem and reach the set goal. Therefore, such a result has an additional significance that is absent from the results of practical activities, in fact, creating copies.
Being creative, man changes both the environment and yourself. It has new opportunities that allow it to have an even more beneficial impact and develop even more.
Creativity is essential in any subject area, in any profession. In all areas there are unresolved problems and huge potential for development.
To support the creative process, a person must have a good the physical state. Cannot be consumed junk food, alcohol, smoking, etc. And play sports as much as possible. This makes it possible to provide intelligence with the necessary nutrients and limit it from harmful effects.
The study of creativity heuristic. Its main task is to build models that describe the process original solution tasks.
The following are currently known heuristic models:
- blind search: based on trial and error;
- labyrinthine: the problem is presented as a maze, and its solution is moving through the maze to find a way out;
- structural-semantic: the problem is presented as a system that has a certain structure and semantic links between its elements.
In the process of creative activity, sometimes it becomes necessary to carry out algorithmic, clear computing. In this case, you need to use the help of developed computing systems that allow you to carry out these calculations. A person needs to engage in creative, heuristic thinking.
In everyday life, creativity manifests itself as savvy- the ability to boldly, non-trivially and witty find a way out of a hopeless, sometimes critical situation, using extremely limited and non-specialized means and.
Creativity allows you to be more sensitive to problems, lack or inconsistency of knowledge. This allows you to determine the direction in which you need to develop in order to be able to solve known problems and achieve certain goals.
Because the main component responsible for generating original ideas is imagination, then for the development of creativity, you can use the training to develop the imagination.
Creative abilities
Creativity consists of a set of abilities. They allow you to clearly understand how creativity manifests itself and what is needed for its development.
These abilities include:
Fluency is the ability to generate a large number of ideas per unit of time. Allows you to quickly find many ways to solve a problem and determine the most suitable one.
Originality- this is the ability to generate new, non-standard, extraordinary ideas that differ from the known or obvious ones. The better this ability is developed, the faster the psychological inertia is overcome, which limits thinking to standard patterns and convinces of the unreality and futility of original ideas.
Flexibility- is the ability to use different methods to generate original ideas and quickly switch between methods and ideas.
openness is the ability to solve a problem for a long time to perceive new information from the outside, rather than using existing experience and not adhering to standard stereotypes.
Susceptibility is the ability to normal situation find contradictions, unusual details, uncertainty. Allows you to find the unusual in the ordinary, the simple in the complex.
Imagery- this is the ability to generate ideas in the form of single, integral mental images.
Abstraction- is the ability to generate general, complex ideas based on private, simple elements. Allows you to generalize and build a single view of the problem based on simple, unrelated knowledge and ideas.
Detail- is the ability to detail the problem before understanding each of its elements. Allows you to break the problem into parts, analyze them until the essence of the problem, its smallest elements, becomes clear.
verbality- this is the process of breaking a single, figurative idea into separate words and highlighting essential parts. Allows you to clarify the structure of the problem and the relationships between its elements and share this information with others to solve the problem together.
Stress tolerance is the ability to act and generate ideas in a new, unusual, previously unknown environment.
Determination of these abilities in oneself and their conscious development can significantly increase the originality and usefulness of the generated ideas. This contributes to increasing success and accelerating the process of realizing the destination.
The creative process and its stages
Creativity has a certain creative process A that repeats each time a unique result is obtained.
The essence of creativity is to use personal talent and imagination to solve problems, achieve goals and realize purpose. The result of the creative process is a new, unique element that improves its creator or environment and provides new opportunities.
The creative process consists of the following steps:
1. Preparation
The problem is formulated and the intention to solve it arises. Consciousness is filled with knowledge from all available sources (memory, books, magazines, the Internet…). Hypotheses and assumptions are put forward. For a short period of time, an attempt is made to solve the problem based on the available capabilities of consciousness.
2. Processing
If there were not enough opportunities, then a temporary distraction to another problem or business is performed. At this time, the solution to the problem passes to processing from consciousness to the subconscious. Subconscious processes begin to run, imperceptible to humans and automatically generating new ideas until an acceptable solution to the problem is obtained.
3. Inspiration
After generating an idea, possibly allowing to solve a problem, it is transferred from the subconscious to consciousness - inspiration appears. Usually this happens absolutely unexpectedly for consciousness and in completely random situations.
4. Evaluation
Having received an idea, consciousness evaluates it for the possibility of using it to solve the problem. To do this, it analyzes and compares the idea with personal experience and determines whether it can be implemented in the current environmental conditions.
5. Implementation
If no contradictions are found, then a decision is made to implement the idea. An implementation plan is formed and actual actions are carried out. The result is a tool, method, or technology that solves the original problem.
6. Verification
After implementing the idea and applying the result, it is checked whether the problem is solved or not. The proof or refutation of the put forward hypotheses and assumptions is carried out. If the problem is not solved, then the process starts over. If the problem is solved, then the next problem is solved.
The subconscious stage of the creative process
occupies a special place in the creative process. processing step Problems. Its peculiarity lies in the fact that the solution of the problem is carried out absolutely imperceptibly for a person by his special ability - subconscious.
Laziness and weak will. They also make it difficult to start the creative process and overcome psychological inertia. To overcome them, it is necessary to train self-discipline.
Lack of prioritization. In the process of creative thinking, a large number of ideas are generated that need to be implemented. Some are very important and useful for solving the problem. They need to be implemented first. Others are less important and need to be put off until later, put in a queue. But most people don't define the importance of ideas - their priority. And they try to implement simpler, but less useful ideas. To overcome this obstacle, you need to learn how to prioritize ideas, goals, and deeds.
Congestion of consciousness. After being filled with consciousnesses with all possible knowledge that can help solve the problem, he must be allowed to rest, relax. But very often this is not done and consciousness is used to solve other problems. Increased workload of consciousness reduces the speed of generating ideas. To overcome this obstacle, you need to consciously take breaks to speed up the creative process.
conformism. Acceptance of other people's opinions and experiences without criticism and analysis. This personality trait is characterized by agreeing with everything that is in the environment, without assessing whether it is right or not, whether it is optimal or can be improved. To overcome this obstacle, you need to develop critical thinking, everything new needs to be approached with the questions "why, why, for what ...".
impatience. The person wants to find a solution to the problem immediately. But this requires a large amount of source material (knowledge, ideas) and high level intelligence development. But when the solution is not found in a short period of time, then the person simply stops dealing with this problem and switches to another, easier one. To overcome this obstacle, you need to train self-discipline, and especially perseverance.
Rigidity. Firmness, steadfastness in the means used to make decisions and achieve goals. Restricts a person to use new tools that may be more effective and reliable. To overcome this obstacle, you need to develop flexibility of thinking, learn about the emergence of new tools and apply them to solve problems and achieve goals.
Removing all these obstacles is guaranteed to increase the efficiency and success of creative activity. This, in turn, will speed up the process of realizing the destination.
Types of creative output
As a result of creative activity, a new system is created or an existing system is improved. Depending on the usefulness, these results are divided into the following types.
Opening
Discovery of a previously unknown law, system, sign or connection, confirmed experimentally. It has a revolutionary effect on the development of the system and changes existing goals and paradigms.
Invention
A tool that allows you to solve a specific problem and achieve specific goals. It also allows you to perform certain actions more efficiently than using existing tools, and has a fundamentally new structure.
Rationalization proposal
Improving the effectiveness of existing means to achieve goals without significantly changing their structure.
Regardless of the type of result, creativity creates new knowledge, allowing to solve similar problems and achieve similar goals in other areas. The results are also given by new ideas for creativity to solve new problems and achieve new goals.
The consequences of performing creative activities
Putting creativity into practice can increase risk causing harm. This happens because there is not enough experience in using new, untested ideas and means to solve a particular problem or achieve a goal. But with experience and the development of creativity will come an understanding of which original ideas are useful and which are harmful.
With the development of creativity appears Vera that any, even the most absurd and unrealistic idea, will help to achieve a certain goal. This belief is one of the motives that push the implementation of revolutionary ideas and the creation of new, huge systems that decide global problems. As Henry Ford said: You can believe that you can. You may believe that you cannot. In both cases you are right".
Many successful people claim that 30-50% success their projects and companies bring exactly creative, original ideas generated by themselves or by specially hired professionals with well-developed creativity. They also note a vicious circle - creativity gives new successes, and they, in turn, are a source of creativity and inspiration. This suggests that man and creativity are a single entity that cannot exist without each other.
Therefore, always devote personal time to development of creativity and their creative abilities. This will always have a beneficial effect on success. Do not stop engaging in creative activity, because it is the main means in realizing the destination.
